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In Florida, I made you mad four times. Big times, not like leaving-dirty-dishes-in-the-sink-mad or forgetting-to-pull-out-the-chicken-from-the-freezer-mad. These four times are validated—I’ll give you that. I’ve listed them here in numerical order by date of occurrence. Please feel free to send rebuttals.
1. Stealing $22 from mom’s coworker’s purse, subsequently allowing the blame to land on another coworker.
2. Skipping 4th period for 9th grade.
3. Sneaking out one night and trying acid.
4. Running away to avoid moving back to boring Oregon (not to be confused with Boring, Oregon).
Mandy Clark graduated in 2012 from Pacific Lutheran University with an MFA in Creative Writing. Her fiction, nonfiction, flash fiction, and poetry has appeared in Whitefish Review Literary Journal, RWW Soundings, 100 Word Story, High Shelf Press, Third Point Press, Sad Girls Club Lit, and Sunspot Literary Journal. She lives in Corvallis, Oregon and loves pizza and rain in no particular order.